This article is making an advocacy for including Digital Literacy into the traditional Art History curriculum and explains how it can be defined and what Digital Literacy could entail for the BA and MA curriculum.
Read MoreFeatured Article: Digital Art Now – Histories of (Im)Materialities
The multifaceted history of digital art has also entailed an evolution of understanding the complex relationships between the material and immaterial in the digital medium.
Read MoreA Short History of Self-Representation in Digital Art
This article examines the lesser-known history of artistic self-representation in digital art, from the beginning of computer art to the present day.
Read MoreMeta-curating: online exhibitions questioning curatorial practices in the postdigital age
In discussing selected digital exhibition formats from the 1990s until today, the article illustrates how the genre has evolved in response to technological changes and concepts of democratization as well as user involvement.
Read MoreInterview: Claudia Hart – Liminal Feedback Loops and Hybrid Dualities
Media artist Claudia Hart discusses with Tina Sauerlaender her work, career and how we are experiencing a crisis of truth.
Read MoreVan Gogh TV´s “Piazza Virtuale” – Report-In-Progress and Preliminary Case study
In this essay, the authors give an overview of the 1992 "Piazza Virtuale" project, outline the division of labor between the two project partners, introduce applied theoretical frameworks, and describe in detail the archival approach and research methods that they have employed so far.
Read MoreReview of Maria Dondero's 'Language of Images: The Forms and the Forces'
Maria Dondero’s recent publication, The Language of Images: The Forms and the Forces, extends arguments formulated within the tradition of visual semiotics to develop focused discussion of three concepts: the materiality of the substrate of images, the force of enunciation in visual analysis, and the metavisual as an approach to aggregate images and corpora.
Read MoreThe Curator’s Machine: Clustering of Museum Collection Data through Annotation of Hidden Connection Patterns between Artworks
When visual analysis is not sufficient to distinguish moldmates, three features of the mold’s wire mesh can be quantitatively analyzed using image processing techniques: watermark shape and placement, chain line intervals, and laid line density, for which a new method of analysis is introduced here.
Read MoreThe History of Art Markets: Methodological Considerations from Art History and Cultural Economics
In this paper, we analyze two bodies of literature—art market research within art history and art market research within cultural economics—to assess their respective approaches and methodological distance.
Read MoreThe Close-up Cloud: Visualizing Details of Image Collections in Dynamic Overviews
This paper introduces a visualization technique designed to uncover iconographic patterns prevalent within a collection while at the same time allowing close viewing of these particular details.
Read MoreMoldmate identification in pre-19th-century European paper using quantitative analysis of watermarks, chain line intervals, and laid line density
When visual analysis is not sufficient to distinguish moldmates, three features of the mold’s wire mesh can be quantitatively analyzed using image processing techniques: watermark shape and placement, chain line intervals, and laid line density, for which a new method of analysis is introduced here.
Read MoreFEATURED ARTICLE: The Museum Opens
This speculative fiction narrates the experience of a virtual museum environment in the near future.
Read MoreQueer Criticalities, Instagram, and the Ethics of Museum Display
In the exchanges between past and present, knowledge and narratives, re-imagined aesthetic relationships and rendered environments, there seems to be missing a queer criticality of the digital repertoire.
Read MoreImpact of Digitization on the Scholarly Workflow
The technological progress of the past decades has had a transformative effect on both cultural institutions and academic research.
Read MoreDefining Online Resources Typologies in Art Museums: Online Exhibitions and Publications
This article intends to define two of the most relevant online resources typologies in art museums, the online exhibition and the online publication. The aim of it is to discuss and understand the importance of rethinking traditional typologies in the digital age.
Read MoreArt History Now: Technology, Information, and Practice
This article argues that we should focus not on the digital or the computer, but instead on the dynamic interrelationship between the institutions and domains responsible for the management of art historical information and those of the production of art historical knowledge.
Read MoreIconographic Visualization Inside Computational Notebooks
The software is designed primarily for those researchers working with large image datasets in fields where human visual expertise cannot be replaced with or superseded by machine vision, such as art history and media studies.
Read MoreMethod in Interdisciplinary Research
This paper creates a conceptual frame and explanatory point of reference for the collection of papers presented at the exploratory workshop “Data Science for Digital Art History: Tackling Big Data Challenges, Algorithms, and Systems” organized at the KDD 2018 Conference in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery held in London in August 2018.
Read MoreNavigating Museum Collections using Formal Concept Analysis
The digital medium allows visitors, curators and art historians to gain new insights into their collections through data analysis and rich, interactive visualizations. Motivated by the rise of large-scale cultural heritage collections that have emerged on the Web, we argue that Formal Concept Analysis can be used to highlight the relationships between objects and their features within digital art collections and provide a means for visitors to explore these collections via interactive, narrated pathways.
Read MoreThe Problem of Distance in Digital Art History
This paper describes an intervention that seeks to combine the qualitative with the quantitative through collaborative research, expressive structured data, and a human-centered and participatory approach to the ‘knowledge graph’.
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